Everything old is new again

[captainsblog]

So when Eleanor first went to Lowes and ordered the tile for the now-laid new kitchen floor, I never saw exactly what she'd picked out.

"Oh, it's Armstrong commercial tile, [various specifications in essentially foreign language]- you know, pretty much the same one we had installed in our last house."

No recollection whatsoever of that. It's going on 18 years since we moved from there, and I had memories of something boxy and orange that are coming from gods-know-where.  Fortunately, we took a LOT of pictures back in the day. Including this one:



Yup. Something DOES compare 2U, floor:



Same tile. Same hutch. Same kid. Different tail, though.

Comments

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Wow. That kitchen is beautiful! It makes me want to reorganize my living space. The little drawers under the butcher-block island are so pretty.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Thank you:) That island is itself an amazing story. The base was a left-behind desk in our last house. Eleanor replaced its top with a roughly same-sized piece of formica, and we used it in that kitchen until we moved. Once we got here, she got the idea of replacing it with the larger surface from what had been a bowlegged work table from her parents' cellar. I see more conventional islands in more expensive kitchens all the time, and can't imagine any of them working as well, or imaginatively, as this one always has.